Liliana

And when I say spontaneous, what I mean is he just comes over and starts hitting us with usually his hands, but sometimes he would grab a bell, a cord, whatever was nearby.

But a ritualistic beating...

When I say that, what I'm referring to is there was a, like, it's planned, it's talked about, and there's a routine to it.

So the ritualistic beatings, how they happened in my house was, or not just me, my siblings as well, had to strip our clothes, like our pants and our underwear off, bend over the arm of the couch, and we had to place our arms behind our back like this.

And he would take a belt and just go to town, like, just go to town.

A lot of times, like, he would grab our hands behind our back and hold us down so that we couldn't move and stuff like that.

Sometimes he would even just stroke our butt before he did it.

Like, and my mom would be standing in the doorway every time, just kind of overseeing.

And a lot of times, like, he would be giving us our lashings and she would be in the doorway and say, that's enough.

And he would keep going and she would have to go, that's enough, honey, that's enough.

Like,

Hello?

Like he's beating your toddlers.

Hello?

Like do something.

But no, she stood there and watched him do it every single time and didn't, whatever.

And the first time he left bruises on one of us was T. And T was only three years old when she got bruises on her.

And my mom confronted him about this and said, you're not like, she's three years old.

That is excessive force.

You shouldn't be doing that to a three-year-old.